Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
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Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1527
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1528
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1529
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1530
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1531
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1532
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1533
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1534
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1535
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1536
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1537
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1538
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1539
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1540
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1541
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1542
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1543
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1544
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1545
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1546
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1547
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1548
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1549
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1550
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min